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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE interstatecomnerce act is fruitful IL
lustration of the fact that too much law is worse
than none.-Chicago Journal
THE Prohibitionists have chosen queer time
to operate in Texas. There is a widespread
drought there-Pittsburg Chronicle
PETTING criminals doesn't pay. There should
be a lockout of sentimentality. and mo flowers"
should be posted all the doors Of Jails and
prisons Boston Herald.
LET US thank the providence which watches
the welfare of infants and fools that the
hullabaloo that was made over the christening Of
the Whitney baby did not kill the poor little
thing -Pttsburg Dispatch.
GOVERNOR HILL has made a strong bid for the
saloon vote by vetoin2 the Crosby high-license
bill. The only true reason he gives for the veto
is that it was party measure. This places him
in the unenviable position of monarch The
rewards of monarchy are bitter pills.-St Louis
Chronicle.
THE freight conductors and brakemen on the
Panhandle line were simply following IN the
footsteps of the more distinguished thieves who
preceded them. We cannot look for high
standard of integrity among the small employees
of corporations as long the large ones steal
at every opportunity. Mail.
The proposed treaty with Russia must not be
ratified in its present shape. No exile shall
be returned on account of political belief. An
attempt enforce treaty obligation requiring
such an act would be attended with scenes such
were witnessed in or States on the at
tempt to give effect to the fugltive-slave law.
Boston Globe.
THE interstate commerce law is resulting just
as all men not blinded by pref udce or frightened
by senseless clamor saw it would result. Every
attempt ever made to interfere by arbitrary
actments with the laws of trade have resulted
disastrously, as this one has. The ever-varying
necessities of commerce render it impossible to
prescribe unchaneing rules for its governance.
| National Republican.
| 1T is hard to ride two horses at any time. and
especially hard when the horses going in
| opposite directions. In riding the Prohibition
horse in Michigan, the Republicans have offend
| ed the German voters. Now that prohibition
has been defeated. it is proposed to recover lost
| ground by making a high-whisky and low-beer
| license. The Teuton loves his beer, but he will
| hardly walk back into the Republican camp on
such shallow and hypoeritcal inducements.
| philadelphia Record
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sprinkle the track and both sides Of it at once.
There is no difficulty in the case except to get
way company would bring all the usual appli-
ances to bear to defeat movement of the
kind, but if the people will turn out and
attend the Council meetings a few nights it
can be got through. Members will not dare
vote against the proposition if they know they
are watched by their constituents, and that
respectable number of them are present for
the purpose. Such measure ought to be
introduced and put on its passage at once
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
LESSON FROM A RAILROAD.

The Allegheny Valley railroad has an acct
dent record of which it may be proud, and
which may we'll excite the envy and admira-
ton of other roads. The record in question
is complete blank. Not passenger has
been killed or seriously injured for fourteen
years, and not an employee has been killed or
injured by a train accident for seven years.
During 1866 there was paid out on account of
loss and damage to freight only $3.50, and
there was but one freight wreck on the divi
sion. The line is only 1872 miles in length,
but its business is heavy and the risks of
travel upon its trains are certainly as great
from outside causes as those which threaten
any other road in thickly-settled region.
The immunity from accident is ascribed to
the fact that the company enforces a strict
temperance rule upon its employes-a prohi-
bition that includes not only their hours of
service, but extends to all times. As a result
the trainmen are invariably clear-headed and
reliable. They are also honest and trust
worthy, a fact that may be accounted for, in
some measure at least, by their habits of alb
stinence. The freight thieves on the Pan
handle road, it has been noted, INDUCED
freely in intoxicants, and permitted no whisky
barrels to pass through untapped. Had a
temperance restriction been in force on this
road it is highly probable that better class
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

TIP GRAND JURY.

A measure of light has been turned on the
proceedings of the grand jury, and the public
can now see what has been going on behind
the curtain. The Journals worst fears are
realized. Noindictments are found against
the tally-sheet forgers Three members of
the grand jury proved to be their friends.
The facts came out in the Criminal Court
yesterday in report signed by Parker S.
Carson, b. w. Harcourt and Francis ".
Hamilton. The statement of these three
members of the grand jury will be read with
amazement and indignation. Its pre-
sentation in court yesterday caused pro-
found sensation. 1t is shocking disclosure.
The honesty and veracity of these three gen.
tlemen will not be questioned, and that which
they say is conclusive as to the facts. They
state that the evidence before the grand jury,
both direct and circumstantial, was conclus-
i've as TO the preparation of the forgeries and
as to the persons who committed them. The
evidence was overwhelming and the law, as
given to the grand jury by the prosecuting
attorney and his assistant, was clear. But
three members of the grand jury refused to
find an indictment. The three persons who
thus shielded the tally-sheet forgers were:
HENRY B. MATTHEW'S,
DANIEL B. HOSBROOK and
JAMES RENIHAN.
The three honest members Of the jury, un-
willing to subject themselves to public con-
domination by further association with the
Their statement is brief and strong. 1t dis
closes the situation in its naked infamy Ev-
cry honest man in the country will say, all
honor to the men who made it. They have
done their duty as far as they could, and have
earned the thanks of the public. The court
ordered their statement to be filed. The re-
marks Of the Judge indicate that he was as
founded by the strangeness of the situation,
and at a loss how to proceed. This is not sur
prising; for, as he said, the case is unpar-
alleled in the annals of criminal law, and he
knew not what course to pursue. 1t is to be
hoped reflection and consultation will suggest a
course by which outraged law and justice can
be indicated This infamous crime has now
reached stage where every man in the COM
munity must take sides, for or against its
punishment, and the enforcement of law.
The scoundrels who forged the tally-sheets
have invaded the grand-jury room, and pol
luted the very fountains of justice. They
have wormed their Shiny way into the inner
sanctuary of the law, and partisanship has
Influenced its appointed ministers. The
action of the grand jury is an outrage even
more startling in its nature and alarming in
its possible results. than the forgery itself
1t complexities the situation, and calls for wise
counsel and vigorous action against the ras-
Gals who are stabbing justice in front and
in rear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
THE CAR COMPANY AND The COUNCILS

The censure that has been passed upon the
Council and Board of Aldermen for the pass
age OF the ordinance giving the street railway
company the right to use the Illinos-street
tunnel seems to have arisen largely from a
misconception of the fscts.-The News.
1t does not ''seem to have arisen FROM any
thing of the kind, except in the opinion of
the friends and attorneys of Tom Johnsonism.
The Journal said, for one, that the value of
the special franchise Of the tunnel was of the
least possible consequence; what was of con-
sequence was, that the grant was an
other evidence of the absolute own
ership of the city government by
this grasping, pinchgut monopoly. Yet in
this very tunnel matter. taking the attorneys
and organs Of the company at their own
words, there was difference of opinion as to
the effect of the ordinance, and that doubt
was resolved in favor of the company instead
of in favor of the city. And so it has been
from the beginning. Whatever the street-car
company has asked it has received. What
ever the people have asked has
been steadily and persistently de-
MED. To-day the management of
the company is disgrace to decency and
civilization. In no city in the world is there
such outrageous defiance of the public con-
venience as in this city. What have the
councils ever done to remedy the abuses9
Everybody knows the long list of abuses
from which the people have prayed to be de-
ivered without avail. Even in the mat
ter of the smoking hogs in the
cars it took hard work for more
than a year to obtain an ordinance,
and then it was an ordinance that made the
passengers take their complaints before the
Mayor! And so the smoking nuisance con-
tinues, not to so great an extent as formerly,
but there yet remain hogs running at large
in the street cars with cigars in their mouths,
while drivers, and Spoilers" and car agents
look on in derision at the suffering passen-
gers.
No matter what may be Tom, Dick or
Harry's opinion about the Ii;nois-street
tunnel ordinance, the fact remains that the
doubt respecting its effect was given to the
company and not to the city There will be
an end to this sometime.
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THE worst feature about the wholesale rob-

THE worst feature about the wholesale rob-
berries on the Panhandle railroad is the evi-
dence they furnish Of widespread dishonesty
among a class of men who were above sus-
picion until this disclosure. The extent of
the stealings though considerable, is as moth
ing compared with the extent of the dishon-
esty. Such developments are a much greater
shock to ones confidence in human nature
than the defalcaton of bank officer or the
flight of a stock broker. In the latter case
only one man proves a rascal, while in the
other two or three hundred trusted employees
are suddenly shown to be thieves. OF course
there can be no sympathy with them, but the
discovery of such widespread dishonesty
among that class of men is none the less
shocking
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
, sprinkling the streets.

THERE is an ugly fight brewing in Michi-
gan over the vote on the prohibitory amend
ment. Leading Prohibitionists are determined
have the vote of Detroit thrown out on the
ground of fraud, and have commenced pro-
ceedings to that effect. On the other hand,
the opponents of prohibition claim to have
discovered extensive frauds in the Prohibition
counties, and cite as proof the fact that in
several of the strongest Prohibition counties
the vote for the amendment was several hun
dred greater than the total vote on the State
ticket. The controversy is generating bad
blood on both sides.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
UNDERTAKING..

To begin WITH there is no such thing as
mind-reading in the sense that Bishop and his
adherents claim. All that is known as mind
reading is muscle-reading or notifications of
it. AS long ago as 1877 this same Bishop was
reading without physical contact, by the ear
when blindfolded, judging by the steps of the
subject, when he was near the locality thought
of, and this to the great amazement and
amusement of the English aristocracy, in
Guiding the royal family. He was
investigated by Romanes, Robertson,
Gallon, Lancaster and DIR. Carpenter. These
eminent scientists and psychologists knew
nothing of his character. This knowledge
was not necessary for perfect scientific inves-
tigation as to Bishops methods but if he
had been candid he would have told them
that he was in America in 1874, at the time
of the muscle-reading excitement; that he
Browns results Brown was then. as he is
now, dipping the people for the money in it.
Bishop knew all about the explanations in the
Popular Science Monthly and various journals
of medicine by DR.. Beard Both Brown and
Bishop were regarded by this eminent investi-
gator of psychical phenomena as tricky and un-
reliable.
Bishops great success in London society
as a professed reader Of thought was, in
Norf dy,o fc foyn h1o 1o{f &c sx,&,
duction from Dr. w. B. Carpenter the great
opponent of all humbugs. This letter was
intended to expose Bishop by recommending
him to the credulous, but it served to gain
the attention of the scientific also, and so pnt
them in the undignifed position of stalking
horses to Bishops notoriety.
In no case in Europe did Bishop find the
properties or qualities of objects, only locali-
ties and objects. Nor did he develop any un-
usual delcacy of tactile perception, or the
power to detect slight differences in the
weights of objects AS soon as the eminent
English psychologists saw DIR. Boards expla-
nation Of the same phenomena in the case of
Brown in America, they agreed it was full
and complete, and 'mind-reading" became as
common in England as in this country.
There are probably hundred persons in In
dianapolis who, with good training. could
double discount both these Thought read
ers" who are making money out of the
credulitv of those who 60 to see them.
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of men could have been secured for conduct
ors and brakemcn. A number of other rail-
way companies, possibly indeed the Pennsyl-
vania management among them, have adopted
rules of this character; but it is nowhere so
strictly enforced but that man not an un-
mistakable topper may easily get employment
on their lines The advantages arising from
an absolute refusal to take into their service
any man not thoroughly temperate at all
times are demonstrated in the case of the
Allegheny Valley road, and may be followed
with profit by all employers in that line of
business, or any other who are DESTROYS of
securing the best class of workmen.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

THE Water-works Company is one of those
corporations which enjoys valuable franchise
granted by the city-the monopoly of furnish
ing its people with water and the free use of
streets and alleys for their pipes. Having OBJ
tanned its franchise, the Water works Com
pany, like other favored corporations, is more
concerned about squeezing the public than it
is about accommodating it. The city pays
roundly for nearly all the water it uses, though
it granted the use of the streets and alleys free
1t might be worth while for the council to set
about devising plan to make the water-works
contribute to sprinkling the streets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
WHILEevery city in the country has suffered

WHILEevery city in the country has suffered
more or less from this cause, Indianapolis has
been singularly free from long-continued
and stubborn strikes which result in nothing
but loss to all parties concerned. The cause
of this is undoubtedly the fact that the
mechanics and workingmen of indianapolis
are an unusually intelligent and we'll posted
class of citizens, and not given to making
preposterous demands. Their requests are,
as rule, fair and reasonable, and being
recognized as such by their employers, are
complied with so far as possible. There is no
danger of "labor troubles" where employers
and employed meet each other in proper
spirit, and show disposition to adjust the
differences on basis fair to both.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

road company are concerned the dust problem
is of simple solution. The company should
be required to sprinkle these streets for the
entire length of its tracks. 1t makes most of
the dust and that which it does make is the
worst kind of dust-fne, gritty and penetrat-
ing, Injurious 20 property and health. 1t
would be very small compensation for the
use Of the streets to require the company to
sprinkle them. A box-car could be con
structed which, filed with water, would
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

perior Of the mugwumps, thinks "four-ffths
of the Independents would vote for Cleveland
against Sherman, who is strong as national
character. but lacks attractive personality"
AS Cleveland certainly is not strong as a ma
tional character, Mr.. Curtis must think he
possesses attractive personality" in higher
degree than Sherman. Cleveland's attractive
personality is only perceptible to mugwump-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
weighing the testimony for and against It is
for such privileges this that we have an Agri-
cultural Department to our government

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES is one of the
brightest old boys extant. At private enter
tainment in Boston, few nights ago, he read
the ''One-hoss Shay" in manner, says a Bos-
ton paper, $50 full of the condensed spirit of all
the fun of the iongbeloved ballad that every
body in the drawing room laughed as they could
not have laughed if they had never heard it
hoforo
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

HENRY LABoUcHERE, the outspoken editor
of London Truth, says in substance if Irish
men would not be slaves they must resist
coercion to the bitter end. "War must be met
by war;" he says. and every means of resist
ance used (which oppressed nationalities have
ever nad at their command and have ever used
in their struggles for their rights"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

BISHOP CHATARD is not classed in this city
as laboring man, but his election as a mem
Der of the Artists and Laboring Mems Socie-
ty at Rome is none the less gratifying to the
distinguished gentleman's friends here. 1t
u.s. perhaps, not necessary to state that the
Roman organi zation is not founded on Henry
George theories.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

AFTER Mr. Coys announcement that "the
fewer people you have in this politics the bet
field of large number of persons who insist
upon taking an active part in proceedings is
said TO fill that gentleman with deep disgust
and~indgnation. Mr. Coy, having expressed
desire to play lone hand, naturally regards
any participation in the game by Others as an
unwarrantable intrusion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
ian vision.

GEN. LEW WALLACE and Mr.. Hugh Dough-
erty, of Wells county, have declined to serve
as soldiers monument commissioners. Their
decision is greatly to be regretted. General
Wallaces name and character, and peculiar
fitness for the duty gave great strength to
the commission, while Mr.. Dougherty was a
unanimous choice for the place from the first
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
Grover as a Gusher.
Buffalo Express.


When Grover Cleveland so far forgets or re-
members himself as to gush political, patriotic
or personal sentiment, he generally contrives to
gush disgustingly. And his sentimental letter
reeretting his inability to witness the unwilling
Sydney Johnston at New Orleans the other day,
is supreme example of the Presidents ire
pressible proclivity in that direction
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

THE street-car horses on Tom Johnson's
Brooklyn line are dying with pink eye. H.
dianapolis citizens who pay 5 cents for the
privilege of riding behind Tom Johnson's
mules and being their own conductors will
make up this Brooklyn loss to him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

If the city authorities do not believe that
the Journal voices the wishes of the people in
regard to sprinkling the streets, it might be
convinced by direct petition. A canvass of
the city would secure the names of every res
ident, not excepting the managers of the Street
Railway Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

THE national musical convention will bring
visitors from all parts of the country to In
dianapolis. but if the dust fills the air as it
does now they will never core again.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

WHAT member of Council will introduce
an ordinance requiring the street railroad
company to sprinkle the streets it usesY Let
such an ordinance be introduced, and then let
us see who will vote against it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

THE indifference of the Indianapolis City
Council to the welfare of the community
might be accounted for if the South Sea isl
anders, or other far off heather, had elected
its members 70 Office
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

The Journal gladly welcomes the aid of the
News to the work of securing the sprinkling
of the streets. 1t Endorses the idea of using
the fire hydrants and of making the Tom
johnson monopoly sprinkle its tracks
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

ers is already smaller than those paid in any
city in the country with the exception of Bal
timore and Philadelphia. German. however,
must be taught, whoever or whatever may
suffer in consequence.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

THE City Council of Washington, Ind, fol-.
lowing the general example, granted thirty
year franchise to street railway company, but
the Mayor refuses to sign the ordinance. Like
most such ordinances it has the ear-marks of
fraud and the Mayor does we'll to withhold
his signature 1t is a good idea to have some
one to look after the public interests now and
than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

We have been requested to give the vote in
the Board of Aldermen upon the street-ral-
way-tunnel grab. 1t is as follows:
For the grab: Crosby, King, Laut, Reid
and Pritchard--four Democrats and one Re-
publican. Against the grab Brown, Schmidt,
Wright and Endley-three Repu blicans and.
one anti Coy Democrat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

ACCORDING to the Sentinel, Col. ''Bob"
Johnson is the presiding genius of the Citi
zens' Street Railway Company. The name
makes little difference. Be it Bob" or
"Tom," the Indianapolis public is not dis
posed to submit longer to his autocratic con-
troll of the citv's affairs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15
Unreasonable Prohibiiionists.

chicago JournhI
The Prohbitionists ally themselves to the
whisky ranks for the purpose of defeating any
measure OF temperance reform which does not
wholly, entirely and at once accomplish all that
they ask If they cannot get all they want
they not only refuse anything, but help the
whiskyites to get all they want
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where Ignorance Is Bliss.

New York Mail and Express.
Bayliss w Hanna, who is now in country
the language of which he understands even less
than he understands English, is much impressed
by the intelligence of its people He does not
know what they saying about him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

EVEN worm will turn. The indianapolis
public is patient and long suffering. but it has
grown tired of swallowing the dust raised by
the Tom johnson street cars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

THE Joyful Oil" man must move on, but
the transfer car in the middle of Washington
street is sacred obstruction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-15

The citizens of indianapolis, irrespective Of
politics or religion, want the streets sprinkled.
Will the City Council order it doneY